mcconnell says lawmakers confirmed the secretaries of energy, the interior, the treasury, the secretary of state, commerce, transportation, the director of the office of management and budget, the administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services, and the chair of the securities and exchange commission. let's talk about all of this, joe trippy is a former campaign manager for howard dean. ed rollins is a formal national campaign director for reagan, bush in 1984 a former white house political director and deputy chief of staff to president reagan they're both fox news contributors. let's talk about the apocalyptic sounding nuclear option, ed. what does this mean? is this possible? >> well, first of all it's absurd. the new senate sets its rules at the beginning of the session, which was after the last election. any change takes place midterm is by a two thirds vote. reid is trying to get around that. there's been no blocking of any nominees. the last was secretary of transportation. that was a 100-0 vote. they just passed a bipartisan immigration bill. if he makes this cha